Bloggers have already been investigated under the Sedition Act.
Thomas Jefferson called off all prosecutions under the Sedition Act when he became president, and pardoned those already convicted.
No aliens were deported, but there were 25 prosecutions, resulting in 10 convictions, under the Sedition Act.
He was later jailed under the Sedition Act for criticizing the government, but won re-election from his cell.
Activists who speak out against the governing party (which has been in power since 1957) are targeted by the authorities under the Sedition Act.
Zulkiflee Sm Anwar Ulhaque, who draws under the name Zunar, has arrived in Britain to highlight his trial next month, in which he faces nine charges under a Sedition Act introduced to Malaysia by the colonial British government in 1948.
American criticism was perfunctory.In the past year growing numbers of activists and opposition figures have been arrested under the Sedition Act, another colonial law aimed originally at advocates of independence.
A total of 14 indictments were brought against the Republican press under the sedition act, but the crudely partisan prosecutions quickly became infamous persecutions that backfired on the Federalists.
Mr Najib, who once promised to remove it from the statute book, now plans to strengthen it with harsher punishments and a clause forbidding speech that denigrates Islam.Among those already arrested under the Sedition Act are opponents of hudud, corporal and capital punishments, including stoning to death for adultery, laid down in Islamic law.
That is helped by anger at the arrest of three opposition leaders and a student activist under a sedition law the government had promised to repeal, and by raids on opposition newspapers.No opposition leader wants the torch to light a conflagration on the streets in the hope of toppling the government in a Malaysian spring.
